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In the early years of the 21st century, Mainland China experienced a drastic demographic transformation, as residents of rural villages uprooted themselves en masse to relocate to the country’s metastasizing metropolises with hopes of participating in the ongoing national economic miracle that was producing new fortunes seemingly every day. Bringing together fiction and documentary work, Small Town, Big Dreams offers a variety of cinematic perspectives on this historical period of migration and dislocation, and all the hope, disillusion, discovery, and loss that came along with it.